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>> because he won the election and because there's a disabeautiful rating for congress that's so high. what the republicans are trying to do is to try to run out the clock. the further they can get from the election they know all of this turmoil is going to cause obama ratings to deteriorate. >> all right, bob franken, thanks for your time this morning. >>> now, here's your "first look" at some of the other news going on around america. in new jersey, footage from a january accident, surveillance video shows a commuter bus ramming into a school bus, rescues pulled 19 injured people from that commuter bus. >>> in georgia a vicious attack on a female corrections officer was caught on tape. the victim suffered minor injuries. >>> and in missouri, state representative eric burleson is raising some eyebrows after taking a new anti-gun bill to a firing range. the republican lawmaker showing the democrat-sponsored bill, to show their opposition. >>> turning now to sports, a double-overtime thriller in college basketball. number 9 kansas and number 14 oklahoma state went to a second overtime
>> because he won the election and because there's a disabeautiful rating for congress that's so high. what the republicans are trying to do is to try to run out the clock. the further they can get from the election they know all of this turmoil is going to cause obama ratings to deteriorate. >> all right, bob franken, thanks for your time this morning. >>> now, here's your "first look" at some of the other news going on around america. in new jersey, footage from...
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even maybe than it was right after the election. they don't -- you know, i talked to a democratic hill aide today saying you have a 55% president favorability going up against a 10% congress. it's a fight they want to have. democrats are eager to have this fight and will be some at least short-term casualties in terms of furloughing and cuts to things that everyone agrees we should be spending money on. >> a perfect segue for me. democrats want the fight. the republicans perhaps don't. fantastic article today in "washington examiner" which i read all the time. >> no, you don't. >> by bryon york, the effect of boehner's argument is to make obama seem reasonable in comparison. after all, the president certainly agrees that boehner that the sequester cuts threaten national security and jobs. the difference is that obama wants to avoid them. could the gop message on the sequester be anymore self defeating? are they hurting the brand in the fight? >> you have to understand the back story. the gop thought they had a winning hand last year
even maybe than it was right after the election. they don't -- you know, i talked to a democratic hill aide today saying you have a 55% president favorability going up against a 10% congress. it's a fight they want to have. democrats are eager to have this fight and will be some at least short-term casualties in terms of furloughing and cuts to things that everyone agrees we should be spending money on. >> a perfect segue for me. democrats want the fight. the republicans perhaps don't....
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there's no election. almost two years before the next election so the fact they're half as popular as president obama, they don't give a rats patootey. >> what do you base that on? >> everything. >> the inaction? >> everything they say and not doing. they're not prepared to negotiate. they want to lock in the sequester cuts and then as luke indicated, negotiate from that lower funding level and then they can say, well, we need more funding for defense. try to hold the line on those cuts in march but they want to go over this particular cliff and i don't see anything that will stop them from that. >> do you agree that the republicans appear not to care. 45% say there's a better approach dealing with this, president obama. 38% congressional republicans. you also saw the numbers of folks say at least in this poll they would blame going over in to another crisis here. is this not resonating with republicans? are they not getting calls from constituents worried about what will happen here? >> probably not. wha
there's no election. almost two years before the next election so the fact they're half as popular as president obama, they don't give a rats patootey. >> what do you base that on? >> everything. >> the inaction? >> everything they say and not doing. they're not prepared to negotiate. they want to lock in the sequester cuts and then as luke indicated, negotiate from that lower funding level and then they can say, well, we need more funding for defense. try to hold the...
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that's going to be the first federal election after newtown, also the first federal election after the presidential election and the democratic primary is really the whole game in that race because it's such a democratic district. the bloomberg pac has been very, very heavy-handed in terms of their involvement in that race. just blanketing the 2nd district in illinois, that chicago district, with guns, making the a rating from the nra a scarlet letter for the two democrats who are viable contenders in that race who have that rating. is that something that we're only going to see in something so atypical like, that a very democratic district in chicago in a special election, or is this kind of a pilot program for something that democrats might try to do more broadly? >> i think it's a pilot program. and i think one of the problems for advocates of sensible gun laws is that there's been a lot of mythology built up around the power of the nra. and it's true that in certain rural districts in america it's very hard to support any form of gun control, but there have been very few races wher
that's going to be the first federal election after newtown, also the first federal election after the presidential election and the democratic primary is really the whole game in that race because it's such a democratic district. the bloomberg pac has been very, very heavy-handed in terms of their involvement in that race. just blanketing the 2nd district in illinois, that chicago district, with guns, making the a rating from the nra a scarlet letter for the two democrats who are viable...
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even actually sort of after scott brown's special election in 2010. right? and the beginning of this term looks like it was going to be different. right? there was the -- there was the debt ceiling deal in which john boehner brought a vote to the floor even though didn't -- the majority of republicans. he brought another vote to the floor on the sandy supplemental. again, didn't have a majority of republicans and brought to it floor anyway. you start to think maybe this is really going to be different. this will be a different approach from republicans and then we got this week in which you had, it seemed, back to the same old approach. culminating with the hagel filibuster on -- was it friday, thursday, provide, you had this -- fairly unprecedented filibuster of the dod nominee, 58 votes, but under the preverse rules of the united states senate, 58 votes is not good enough. all my hope is dashed. >> indeed. >> thank you. see you tomorrow. >> let's take the fiscal curve. that was not solved by the president. that was solved when the president backed away and
even actually sort of after scott brown's special election in 2010. right? and the beginning of this term looks like it was going to be different. right? there was the -- there was the debt ceiling deal in which john boehner brought a vote to the floor even though didn't -- the majority of republicans. he brought another vote to the floor on the sandy supplemental. again, didn't have a majority of republicans and brought to it floor anyway. you start to think maybe this is really going to be...
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six years from now, when he runs for re-election, if he runs for re-election, it will be a vastly different state, more purple. people forget not so long ago, texas was a democratic state, back and forth. do you think, like mark thinks, maybe there's a national play here? >> it was pointed out to me yesterday he was born in canada. there's a problem -- i heard this argument yesterday thinking about the future. i think he's thinking about the future and putting his chips down on the tea party populous part of the part. i any hispanic in this part of the party will get a lot more attention. he decided he wants to play on the tea party side of the fence rather than mainstream. the national thing is problematic is the fact he was born outside the country so he's not constitutionally -- >> some people think he could run because his mother was an american citizen when he was born. >> i hope that's true because it would vindicate what i said yesterday. >> we could annex canada. >> is that the official policy? >> and another person was born out of the country and ran for president. >> there you go.
six years from now, when he runs for re-election, if he runs for re-election, it will be a vastly different state, more purple. people forget not so long ago, texas was a democratic state, back and forth. do you think, like mark thinks, maybe there's a national play here? >> it was pointed out to me yesterday he was born in canada. there's a problem -- i heard this argument yesterday thinking about the future. i think he's thinking about the future and putting his chips down on the tea...
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everybody has a bad election. >> that's right. >> you're only as good as your last election. but i've got to think, it didn't help that he was so wrong on so many counts. and like dick morris, kept going on fox saying they're going to win. even through the night. i'm just wondering, especially with that performance election night, because even bush people that ran the bush white house are whispering quietly. you know, karl always had his own numbers. he always had this alternate reality. he's getting it from all sides. >> look, over the long term, life is more fair than unfair. karl rove's greatest strength, i think, is this incredible confidence that he brings to the game of politics. i do think he's very, very skilled, operative. in this case that strength became a weakness. it removed him from the reality of the republican problems, at least in the way he talked about them. it looked like he was putting a happy face as the ship got lower and lower beneath the waterline. i don't think this is by any means the end of karl's career. i think he's going to continue to be a majo
everybody has a bad election. >> that's right. >> you're only as good as your last election. but i've got to think, it didn't help that he was so wrong on so many counts. and like dick morris, kept going on fox saying they're going to win. even through the night. i'm just wondering, especially with that performance election night, because even bush people that ran the bush white house are whispering quietly. you know, karl always had his own numbers. he always had this alternate...
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i think with that ratrack recor and getting re-elected by large numbers, i don't think he'll get re-elected in the 60s o 70s, but winning new jersey state, a blueish state, as you said, i think will make him instantly an attractive possibility for republicans headed into 2016. >> how could he say no if he were called upon, if he remains this popular, remains a national figure the way he is now, if he's called upon by his party, wouldn't he have to run? >> i actually -- i'm always skeptical of this idea that someone is called upon. they actually have to decide to go after it. and then when they go after it with gusto and energy, then grass-roots movements follow that. national grass-roots movement don't create a candidacy that a candidate can't resist. so he's going to have to decide if he wants to go for it. it's a low-risk proposition. one of his concerns about running this past time in 2012 is he had run and lost, it would have made it harder for him to get re-elected in governor in 2013. that's no longer a risk. >> it's creating a lot of pent-up demand. he will go for it with gusto. >> w
i think with that ratrack recor and getting re-elected by large numbers, i don't think he'll get re-elected in the 60s o 70s, but winning new jersey state, a blueish state, as you said, i think will make him instantly an attractive possibility for republicans headed into 2016. >> how could he say no if he were called upon, if he remains this popular, remains a national figure the way he is now, if he's called upon by his party, wouldn't he have to run? >> i actually -- i'm always...